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• n  adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder

• All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder.
• The seething crowd made a rush at Grandval, yelling "Dirty Jew" and "To the gallows," ripped off an epaulet and his cap before police could hustle him into his car.
• His green uniform gleaming with nine rows of ribbons on his chest and four silver stars on each epaulet, General Wojciech Jaruzelski strode to the rostrum of Warsaw's .

• epaulette

News & Articles

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• Lake Anne Benston a fitting tribute
  It’s now been three weeks and a day since Anne Benston was spirited away from the Forest Glen Health Campus. And as yet, there’s been no police report. Blindfolded and in the presence of her second husband, Chuck, she was driven in a four-door sedan to a spot in Ferncliff Cemetery down-slope from where Kelly Lake sits on the hill like an epaulet, fringed by trees. Because of a broken hip, her ...
  Nov. 23, 2013 - Springfield News-Sun

Quotes

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• Howard Fineman in Dallas Morning News
  Mr. Fineman adds: "By ripping a star from Mr. Rove's epaulet - the first time Mr. Rove has ever lost, rather than acquired, power in the Bush circle - Mr. Bolten showed that he can be effective, that he can influence events."